{"id":1143,"date":"2024-09-13T19:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2024-09-16T03:03:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T03:03:31","slug":"brazil-unfreezes-starlink-x-assets-after-3-3m-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/brazil-unfreezes-starlink-x-assets-after-3-3m-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil unfreezes Starlink, X assets after $3.3M transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazil\u2019s Supreme Federal Court unfroze the assets of Elon Musk\u2019s satellite communications company Starlink and social platform X after 18.35 million reais, about $3.3 million, was transferred to the government\u2019s coffers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the unblocking of Starlink and X\u2019s bank accounts and assets after the funds had been transferred, covering X\u2019s fines for noncompliance, according to a press release Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some 7.28 million reais, about $1.3 million, was transferred from X, while 11.07 million reais, about $1.99 million, was transferred from Starlink on the judge’s orders.\u00a0<\/p>\n

X faced hefty fines after failing to comply with de Moraes\u2019s orders to remove certain content from the platform and name a new legal representative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The social media company closed its office in Brazil<\/a> and declined to name a new representative\u00a0after the judge threatened to arrest its previous representative over a failure to comply with the takedown requests. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Following X\u2019s refusal to name a new representative, de Moraes ordered the suspension<\/a> of X in Brazil. The platform has been blocked in the country of 220 million since the end of last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

X and Musk have framed the feud with de Moraes as a battle over free speech and censorship. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Shortly before de Moraes\u2019s suspension order went into effect, X\u2019s Global Government Affairs team said it was facing a shutdown \u201csimply because we would not comply with his illegal orders to censor his political opponents.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFree speech is the bedrock of democracy and an unelected pseudo-judge in Brazil is destroying it for political purpose,\u201d Musk, the owner of X,\u00a0also wrote in a post on the platform at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brazil\u2019s Supreme Federal Court unfroze the assets of Elon Musk\u2019s satellite communications company Starlink and social platform X after 18.35 million reais, about $3.3 million, was transferred to the government\u2019s coffers.\u00a0 Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the unblocking of Starlink and X\u2019s bank accounts and assets after the funds had been transferred, covering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/filipzajac.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}